Balangay Voyage - 600th Year Commemoration of the Philippines Maritime Prowess

The Balangay Voyage Expedition is an adventurous attempt of the 35-crew members led by Arturo Valdez to commemorate the 600th year of Sulu Sultan Paduka Batara's voyage using wooden boats originally designed by the Kingdom of Butuan (now the province of Agusan del Norte) in the 4th century. Using the same wooden boats called Balangay, the expedition braved through the vast South China Sea to reach Xiamen, Fujian province of China to relive the footsteps of the great Philippine ancestor.

Expeditions Log 2014

As we have ended the year 2014, we bring back a throwback of the accomplishments, travels and mapping expeditions we made the past year.

We have completed nine major mapping expeditions this year. Seven of which are on various towns spread across Luzon and the island of Mindoro while two of which are mountain expeditions to the Luzon's highest peak and the Philippines' third; and the never before mapped mid-section area of Cavite's jungle, the Palay-Palay Mataas na Gulod Mountain range.

Expeditions Log 2013

2013 has been another record-breaking year not only for Schadow1 Expeditions but for the whole mapping community of the Philippines. The year marked the worldwide record-breaking map updates for the Philippines that took the mapping advocates literally by a storm; to focus on updating the map of the areas stricken by the strongest typhoon recorded in history. It only took a week to reach a million data updates. This is due to a call by the Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team to produce the updated map of the Philippines at a soonest possible time as the mapping data will be used by various institutions to mobilize their relief and rehabilitation efforts to the Philippines.

As for Schadow1 Expeditions, we exceeded our 158 mapping days of 2012 to 195 mapping days this year increasing the mapping contributions of Schadow1 Expeditions to more than double from 123,422 Philippine data modifications of 2012 to a total of 371,034 this year (as of December 8, 2013). We have mapped the country as much as how we have traveled it.

Expeditions Log 2012

As Schadow1 Expeditions started near the end of 2012, we would like to share the expeditions we had and accomplishments we made as we travel and rediscover the Philippines. The following are the places and heights that will forever stay in our memory as we rediscover and make sure no Filipino is a stranger to his motherland.